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...love at first jete. A local dance teacher gave him a scholarship, and by the time he was 13, Morris was choreographing pieces. "I'd make up these dances, and they were really cool," he recalls. "All the steps and everything I do now was there in germ form...
...there can be authentically healthy levels of narcissism, and that's a goal of therapy. But the groups I'm dealing with are those that only appear to be healthy. They marshal resources and legions of loyal people, and they are very influential. But they carry in them a germ seed, or they are affected by their success in a manner such that they ultimately implode. They get to a point in life beyond which they can't go further. I've written much about this problem in a book called The Success Syndrome...
...they will show cracks under the stress of success. But there are also identifiable developmental influences that render some individuals more susceptible than others to self-sabotage. They are like a virus that lies dormant unless it's given the right environment to flourish. What causes the germ seed of the "healthy" narcissist to explode is really the success beyond which he or she can't comfortably proceed. It creates a level of arrogance at which some of them, such as a Gutfreund or Levine, cease following rules. That's really the classic undoing...
...Aren't there plenty of successful people without the germ seed of self- destruction...
...semen was introduced, many ethicists said it separated procreation from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government would control the production...